Hydrohistorian
Well permit 26719-
Well permit · receipt 9017146 · Division 1 · Water District 8 · Douglas County
What this permit is not
A well permit is the State Engineer’s permission to construct and use a well — it is not a decreed water right and confers none. DWR’s record limits its use to: Stock (category Residential).
It carries no WDID, so nothing on the decreed side of this site describes it. For an exempt household or stock well that is normal: such a well is exempt from administration in the priority system — a river call does not curtail it — and never needed a decree. For a non-exempt use it may mean the application expired, was denied, or was permitted under an augmentation plan DWR has not linked here. How permits, decrees and monitoring wells differ →
Permit details
| Status | Well Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 255.0 ft |
| Driller | O.K. HAMACHER WELL WORKS (HAMACHER, OMAR K) |
| Permit issued | 1966-03-31 |
| Well completed | 1966-04-06 |
| First beneficial use | 1979-10-12 |
| Well plugged | 1980-05-06 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.40076, -104.91589 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T7.0 S R67.0 W S32SENW |
Nearby well permits
The 10 closest permits on record, as DWR describes them. Depth and static water level are what the driller reported at completion — one reading, on one day, not a monitored trend. See them on the map →
| Permit | Use | Distance | Depth | Static level | Yield | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26719--A | Stock | 0.2 km | 261 ft | — | — | 1979-09-26 |
| 3493- | Stock | 0.39 km | 111 ft | — | — | 1959-06-02 |
| 32346-F | Municipal | 0.4 km | 2,556 ft | — | — | 1985-10-06 |
| 34574-F | Municipal | 0.4 km | 2,556 ft | — | 319.0 gpm | 1985-10-06 |
| 34684-F | Municipal | 0.41 km | — | — | — | — |
| 297284--A | Domestic | 0.65 km | 719 ft | 340 ft | 11.0 gpm | 2025-06-12 |
| 17-GX | Geothermal | 0.67 km | 305 ft | — | — | 2015-07-30 |
| 297284- | Domestic, Stock | 0.68 km | 600 ft | — | 6.0 gpm | 2015-07-22 |
| 52806-F | Municipal | 0.88 km | 580 ft | — | — | 2000-05-01 |
| 52807-F | Municipal | 0.88 km | 1,250 ft | — | 98.0 gpm | 2000-05-01 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2010-07-06. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.